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Norfolk Island · Norfolk Island
Short description of Kingston
Kingston is the historic heart of Norfolk Island and one of the eleven convict sites of Australia listed together by UNESCO. The settlement was a penal colony twice, and in its second period it was among the harshest in the British Empire. Georgian stone buildings along Quality Row still house the island's administration, and the Norfolk Island Museum spreads over four sites, including relics of the wrecked HMS Sirius. The ruins of the New Gaol and the convict cemetery by the sea stand on the flat ground beside Emily Bay, a lagoon sheltered by the reef where visitors swim and snorkel. Descendants of the Bounty mutineers settled here in 1856.
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Best time to visit: November – February
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- The Kingston convict settlement (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- Emily Bay lagoon
- Norfolk Island Museum (HMS Sirius, Pier Store, No. 10 Quality Row and Commissariat Store)
- The Georgian buildings of Quality Row
- Snorkelling on the reef at Slaughter Bay
- The convict cemetery by the sea
- The ruins of the New Gaol
- Queen Elizabeth Lookout
- Bounty Day (8 June)
- Phillip Island by boat(Day trip)
- The Norfolk Island golf course
- Kingston ghost tour (weekly)